The Trump Administration has proposed changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program--or, SNAP. The service provides food assistance to millions of low-income Americans. The program, as it works now, provides money to families and individuals to use at grocery stores or farmers markets. With SNAP benefits, people can purchase fresh...

Some businesses, like Devumi, work to boost their customer's social media influence by creating more followers. These followers, most frequently bots that may closely resemble the profile of a human user, help to make the user's account look more popular. We take a look at "fake" accounts and how boosting...

After weeks of negotiations aimed at reaching a bipartisan deal on immigration, progress came to a screeching halt yesterday in Congress, after four different proposals in the Senate were rejected...with the most promising deal failing to get 60 votes after a veto threat came in from President Trump. That means that among other things, lawmakers are left without a fix for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, and no clear path forward on comprehensive immigration reform. An immigration and policy expert weighs in on what happened, and what could come next.

Incoming University of Wisconsin-Madison students living on campus will be required to buy a dining plan starting in the fall. UW-Madison previously only offered food on an a la carte model. The hope is this plan will improve the financial model for dining services and ultimately benefit students.

Wisconsin brewers and distillers took to the capitol Thursday to attack a bill that would create a so-called "alcohol czar" while at the same time carving out an exemption to the state's liquor laws for Kohler Co.

As the nation grapples with an ongoing opioid crisis, there are plenty of questions to be answered as to how we got here, and what the lasting impact might be on our communities, our country...and even our economy. A guest researcher looks at the economic costs associated with the opioid epidemic, and what policymakers can do about it.

Senator Fitzgerald has proposed a bill that includes the creation of an Office of Alcohol Beverages Reinforcement under the Department of Revenue. This comes a year after a similar proposal to tweak the state's complicated three-tier system was turned down. We talk about what's in the bill, how it compares...

Reports were that the suspect in yesterday's deadly school shooting in Florida has ties to a white nationalist organization, although that has not been confirmed. We talk to Brian Levin, Professor of Criminal Justice and Director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University-San...

A bill has passed the Wisconsin State Assembly that sets minimum safety standards for old barns that have been repurposed to hold weddings and other events. But some local officials in rural parts of Wisconsin worry that the proposed new regulations don't go far enough.